The El Dorado County Toll Tunnel Authority is hereby created. The authority shall be governed by a board consisting of the members of the Board of Supervisors of El Dorado County.

All of the members of the authority shall serve thereon without compensation, but they shall receive their necessary actual traveling expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties.

A majority of the members of the authority may act for the authority.

The authority may employ a secretary, a treasurer, an attorney, a chief engineer, and such other persons as are necessary to enable it properly to perform the duties imposed upon it by this chapter.

The authority may sue and be sued in the name of the El Dorado County Toll Tunnel Authority.

The authority shall select one of its members to serve as chairman of the authority.